How long has it been since my last post?
I know I'm lazy, I'm trying to post regularly but procrastination is still my biggest issue, lol.
This is week 3, not like I have anymore class this week since my classes are on Mondays to Wednesdays.
Not many assignments coming up yet. Well, not like I have many assignments anyway since I'm doing only 1 subject, duh.
So I kept on wondering these few weeks, what should I do to fill up my free time?
At first I thought of working, but not really possible since they only need me on weekends at the moment.
I don't really like weekends shift as it's the time I hang around with my friends who are working.
So I thought to myself, let's enjoy uni life, clubs!
I joined French Society since last semester, but they haven't done anything these few weeks.
I emailed Japanese club, but they didn't reply me yet.
I emailed MAD (see title) and they replied in few hours! The reply was very encouraging and I know that MAD is an active club and has been winning many competitions.
That's how I joined them on Monday, their weekly meeting was at 5pm.
I was quite surprised to see one small lecture hall used for this club at first.
There are so many students involved in this club, soon I found out that most of them are Law students which explained why they got the whole law building for them.
I was clueless when I entered the hall, there are some people in front and one lady was shouting about "sign-up", so off I go to see her and expressed my interest. Sure thing she immediately type in her laptop my full name.
"Hmm, funny." I thought, "Shouldn't they give me a form, ask my student ID, and check if I'm a MSA member?"
*MSA member: Monash Student Association, you need to pay about $60 per year and you'll get several benefit on stores and clubs in Monash Clayton Campus.
After she jotted down my name, I realised that she is taking the names for who want to join the DEBATE that night!
"S**T!!!!" came through my mind without spoken, "What have I done?!?! Should I take my name off ASAP????"
But then I taught myself, "Why did I join this club for? I want confidence and public-speaking skill."
That's why even though I'm clueless about debate I still left my name written in the role.
At first I sat by myself until they called my team mate, who is having his second debate but first BP style debate.
Well, at least he can teach me how this debate will go.
But the preparation time was only 15 minutes, and it wasn't even enough for us to brain storm, nonetheless to teach me how it goes.
And there I went for my first debate ever, me being second opposition with the topic: "This house will ban offensive music." (Wordings changed, of course they use much more elegant sentences)
Everyone was really good, there are three people before me and I was the last speaker.
When I went to the front for my speech, my mind went blank, I was nervous and panicking!
The room ended up being in perfect silence thanks to me.
After I started my first sentence, eveything went quite well, I was pretty surprised at myself as well.
We didn't win the debate though, I took to many POI (Point Of Information) which I didn't know that we should only take 4 max and me taking all of those, haha....
After first debate, we had pizza for dinner, and of course the club's paying for it, which is really nice! I'll be having pizza every Monday!
Second debate didn't go really well for my team, but I was more fluent than the first one.
We finished at 10pm and luckily my team mate is kind enough to drive me back home, rather than me taking bus and walk 15 minutes since my usual last bus is at 9pm.
I was so happy and proud of myself when every one, especially seniors said that it didn't look like it was my first time doing it even if it's totally true!
This is MAD's website, we can browse many things related to debating:
http://www.monashdebaters.com/
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